A Historian Goes to the Movies : : Ancient Rome

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Call Number: DVD 937.06 Hi Oversize, Adult DVD / Great Courses / History / Ancient / Historian goes to the movies
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	DVD 937.06 Hi Oversize	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult DVD / Great Courses / History / Ancient / Historian goes to the movies	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Title from container.
"Course no. 8635."
Contains 12 lectures; each lecture is approximately 30 minutes.
disc 1: lecture 1. "Quo vadis" kick-starts the sword-and-sandal genre -- "Ben-Hur" : the greatest chariot race -- "Spartacus" : Kubrick's controversial epic -- "Cleopatra" : spectacle gone wild -- "The fall of the Roman Empire" and ancient epics -- "I, Claudius" : the BBC makes an anti-epic.
disc 2: "Life of Brian" : the Roman world's a funny place -- "Gladiator" : the historical epic revived -- "Rome" : HBO's gritty take on ancient history -- "Centurion and the eagle" : the legions in Britain -- "Scipione l'africano" and "Fellini Satyricon" -- Bread and circuses in sci-fi films.
Lecturer, Gregory S. Aldrete.
"The glory of ancient Rome meets the grandeur of modern Hollywood as you join a historian to examine the accuracy of classic sword-and-sandal films."--container.
DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation.

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